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Clinical Lead Dietitian Nutrition Support
| Posting date: | 10 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,490.00 to £66,239.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59490.00 - £66239.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 February 2025 |
| Location: | Beckenham, BR3 3BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0117 |
Summary
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities Overall Job Purpose and responsibilities include: To use expert knowledge and extensive clinical experience to lead, and take responsibility for the strategic planning, development and operational oversight of the implementation of the inpatient dietetic care pathway for nutrition support across the trust, including transfers of patients requiring nutrition support between the trust, acute services and community / primary care services, utilising the principles of clinical governance, sustainability and values-based care. To work together with all stakeholders to integrate and embed nutrition support within MDT care pathways, including nutrition risk screening, identifying, intervening and managing risk via care planning and appropriate referral onward for specialist dietetic and allied health professional clinical care. To be the dietetic lead for the trust Nasogastric Tube Placement, Enteral Feeding & Medicines Administration Policy (For Adult and CAMHS inpatient services). To represent the trust and Nutrition and Dietetic Services within the KHP SEL Consortia, to monitoring and review of the SEL Enteral feeds and Services Contract. Identify and facilitate audit, service evaluation, quality improvement and research priorities to drive clinical development strategy and contribute to the evidence base within this area. To be responsible for planning and delivering nutritional support training within inpatients services, including managing refeeding syndrome, food first approaches, oral nutritional supplementation and enteral tube feeding, to support meeting nutrition and hydration needs, nutritional recovery and weight restoration where appropriate, within specialist eating disorders and mental health services for dietetic colleagues, medical staff, nurses, AHPs and students within the trust as well as locally and nationally. To provide a clinical dietetic service including assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes within agreed specialist area(s), maintaining a caseload of highly complex patients as an autonomous practitioner. To provide clinical, management and professional supervision to more junior colleagues To deputise for the Head of Nutrition and Dietetic Services when required. Personal Specification: Qualifications (A) Essential Requirements Dietetic qualification resulting in registration with the HCPC as a Dietitian Masters Level qualification or post graduate qualification in relevant topic or equivalent experience Strong evidence of continuing professional development Membership of British Dietetic Association (BDA) or other body conferring professional indemnity insurance Desirable Requirements Clinical supervision training Membership of relevant professional special interest groups i.e BDA Specialist Mental Health Group, Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Group, BAPEN, including Specialist Interest Groups (Nasogastric) Experience (A, I) Essential Requirements Significant post graduate experience working in clinical dietetic practice in a variety of areas, including at highly specialist level / band 7, including demonstrating clinical leadership Experience of working in the NHS Experience of working with service users within specialist mental health diagnoses Experience of working with service users with eating disorders Experience assessing and managing underweight, under-nutrition, re-feeding syndrome and meeting nutrition and hydration needs via flexible collaborative multidisciplinary team patient centred trauma informed care Current experience of appropriate and sustainable use of oral nutritional supplements Experience weighing up indications for enteral tube feeding, including under restraint. Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team Experience in the development of dietetic services Contributing to development of local clinical guidelines / trust policies. Involvement in planning local service delivery. Evidence of participation in audit / service evaluations/research/ Quality improvement projects/Patient and Public Involvement Dietetics experience related to food provision and catering, including special diets linked to medical, psychological, cultural religious and personal preferences Experience in training and supervising students / dietetic assistants High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude. Making good decisions in a timely and confident manner. Directing and leading others to accomplish organisational goals and objectives. Effectively working and collaborating with others toward a common goal. Desirable Requirements Lived experience of mental health problems Experience of setting up and managing a service area, service delivery and programme management Experience of research methodology, involvement and publication. Understanding and experience of developing and implementing health policy at local level Knowledge / Skills (A, I) Essential Requirements Knowledge of serious and enduring mental health conditions and treatments Knowledge of both BDA, and HCPC codes and standards and their application in practice and familiar with the principles of clinical governance Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable young people and adults Demonstrate ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills Excellent skills in counselling, motivation, behaviour change, negotiation and persuasion in working with clients, colleagues and commercial partners. Able to build rapport and effective working relationships with service users and carers, who may be distressed or challenging. Ability to work effectively as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team, with individuals and groups. Ability to act appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances Able to use word processing and other IT applications Ability to use electronic systems for recording clinical information Ability to apply evidence-based practice and outcome measurement Ability to solve complex clinical problems some of which will require immediate resolution Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance as part of the supervision process and facilitating it for other staff and students Ability to be flexible, adapting approaches to suit different settings and service users Able to network, establish and maintain relationships Committed to quality Desirable Requirements Knowledge of the Mental Health Act People management skills *A = assessed on application, I = assessed upon interview, A/I = assessed on application as well as upon interview